CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Foreword
4. PART ONE: How we work
5. 1: I am a galaxy
6.       CELLS
7. 2: The rocket-fuelled baby
8.       RESPIRATION
9. 3: Walking backwards to the future
10.       EVOLUTION
11. 4: The big bang of sex
12.       SEX
13. 5: Matter with curiosity
14.       THE BRAIN
15. 6: The billion per cent advantage
16.       HUMAN EVOLUTION
17. PART TWO: Putting matter to work
18. 7: A long history of genetic engineering
19.       CIVILISATION
20. 8: Thank goodness opposites attract
21.       ELECTRICITY
22. 9: Programmable matter
23.       COMPUTERS
24. 10: The invention of time travel
25.       MONEY
26. 11: The great transformation
27.       CAPITALISM
28. PART THREE: Earth works
29. 12: No vestige of a beginning
30.       GEOLOGY
31. 13: Earth’s aura
32.       THE ATMOSPHERE
33. PART FOUR: Deep workings
34. 14: We are all steam engines
35.       THERMODYNAMICS
36. 15: Magic without magic
37.       QUANTUM THEORY
38. 16: The discovery of slowness
39.       SPECIAL RELATIVITY
40. 17: The sound of gravity
41.       GENERAL RELATIVITY
42. 18: The roar of things extremely small
43.       ATOMS
44. 19: No time like the present
45.       TIME
46. 20: Rules of the game
47.       UNDEFINED
48. PART FIVE: The cosmic connection
49. 21: The day without a yesterday
50.       COSMOLOGY
51. 22: Masters of the Universe
52.       BLACK HOLES
53. Acknowledgements
54. Permissions
55. Bibliography
56. Further Reading
57. Index
58. About the Author
59. By the Same Author
60. Copyright